Holder for ornaments and method of detaching the same



A. H. VOGEL HOLDER FOR ORNAMENTS AND METHOD OF DETACHING THE SAME FiledMay '7, 1955 Oct. 29, 1935.

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Patented Oct. 29, 1935 HOLDER FOR ORNAMENTS AND METHOD OF DETACHING THESAME Alfred H. Vogel, Sandusky, Ohio Application May 7, 1935, Serial No.20,260

2 Claims.

This invention relates to holders for displaying ornaments formed ofsugar and used for decorating cakes etc., and to the method of mountingthese decorations upon and from the holders.

' pensive material, such as The object of the present removing the sameinvention is to securely mount the sugar ornaments upon a holder fromwhich individual ornaments can be readily removed from time to time asthey are required for use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be understood as thesidered in connection with drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view naments attached; and

specification is conthe accompanying the holder with or- Figure 2 is asection on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing l denotes a porous andflexible holder comprising a sheet 2, of fibrous material, such as softpaper or woven textile naments 3 of sugar are applied to fabric of highcapillarity. Or-

the face of the by the purchaser as needed.

While it is essential that the ornaments 3 stick securely to the holder,

because the latter are frequently roughly handled, it also is essentialthat the ornaments be readily removable from the holder without tearingtime it is necessary that the the latter.

At the same holders be of inex- Experiments have proven that the use ofhard surfaced paper holders is objectionable because it frequentlyhappened that one or more ornaments would accidently become detached,making the card or holder practically unsaleable. has been found thatwhile the Furthermore, it ornaments would stick securely to the surfaceof the hard paper holder, fragments of the latter the ornaments wereremoved. Obviously objectionable.

when this proved highly would tear off I have found that the foregoingobjections can be obviated by making of high capillary attraction,

the sheets 2 of material to which the ornaments will securely adhere,but from which they can readily be removed after a very slightapplication of moisture to the back of the sheet. Sheets 2 made fromthin fabric such as. soft paper or cotton, woolen and other wovenfabric, 5 which will readily and quickly absorb moisture have been foundsatisfactory.

As the ornaments 3 consist chiefly of sugar, when water is applied tothe back of the sheet 2, by the finger of the user, directly in the rearof the ornament to be removed, the bond between the ornament and theholder will be almost instantaneously broken. Consequently the ornamentcan be removed without loss of time and before the ornament has a chanceto disintegrate. No foreign matter such as shreds torn from the holderwill come oil with the ornament and hardly a trace of sugar will be lefton the card. This is due to the quick action of the moisture in reachingthe ornament and the fact that only the surface of the sugar body ispenetrated, because of the small amount of moisture required and thefacility with which the bond is cleanly broken. The ornaments arepreferably placed upon the holder in slightly spaced relation one to the5 other so that the moisture may be applied to isolated areas at theback of the sheet or holder, without loosening the bonds of ornamentsmounted on the front of the sheet adjacent the one being removed. Acardboard backing, not shown, is preferably provided for the holder andthe whole is covered with a cellophane jacket also not shown.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim is:

1. As an article of manufacture a display holder comprising a sheet ofsoft flexible material having a high degree of capillarity, one face ofsaid sheet having sugar ornaments adhered thereto by the adhesiveness ofthe sugar.

2. As an article of manufacture a display holder comprising a sheet ofporous material having a high degree of capillarity, sugar ornamentsmounted in spaced relation on said material, said ornaments beingadhered thereto by the adhe- 45 siveness of the sugar.

ALFRED H. voGEL.

